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Someones made a Bop It! themed sex toy and its left us lost for words

YOU could twist it, pull it, flick it and spin it. Bop It! toys hit the shelves in the late 90s and almost instantly no kids' party was complete without one. The colourful devices looked a bit like a racing car steering wheel, with a big button in the middle and four different inputs including a pull handle, a twisting crank, a spinnable wheel and a flickable switch. The aim of the game was to follow the commands as they came out of the toy, which got faster as the game went on.

This picture signaled an end to segregation. Why has so little changed? | Civil rights movement

Dorothy Counts, 15, attempts to become the first black student to attend Harding high school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr Edwin Tompkins, a family friend, escorts her. Photograph: Douglas Martin/APIn 1957, Dorothy Counts endured a taunting mob to integrate a North Carolina school. Sixty-one years later, her work is being undone by Michael GraffOne afternoon in early June, graduation week in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins answers the landline phone and waits for an update on the white people who want to flee the local school system she was the first to integrate.

A Valentines Day Analysis For the Rom-Com Purist

The reviews for Valentine’s Day are out, and critics found no love at all for the ensemble piece. But for the movie’s target audience, reviews are fully beside the point. If this is the type of movie you like, you’re going to see it regardless of the amount of hate that Manohla Dargis spews its way. What’s important to you is whether it hits all the right and familiar romantic beats, arcs, and tropes that leave heartstrings plucked, tears jerked, and a general reassurance that love among attractive people is alive and well — the cinematic equivalent of a reflex hammer that taps on all of your awwww nerves.